Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank my honourable colleague for giving me the opportunity to further elaborate on the situation that was raised by Mr. Steen yesterday. When we did the Job Evaluation System and put into place the Hay Plan system, it became obvious that there was going to be a significant change in the way nurses, particularly community nurses, now, have to define the difference between community nurses and nurses who work at the Stanton hospital or the future Inuvik hospital. Community nurses, in my understanding with my discussions with Mr. Voytilla earlier today, a community nurse should we get the pay equity and the collective agreement solved, would just on pay equity and the changes to our classification get somewhere between $9,000 to $13,000 annually on a salary. On top of that, if we get the collective agreement signed off, there will be a two percent increase plus, in some cases depending on the community, a significant increase on the northern allowance benefits, et cetera. In simple language, there would be significant increases to the wages and benefits package offered up should we get an agreement reached, both on the pay equity and on the collective bargaining situation that we placed before the UNW. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 156-13(6): Pay And Benefits For Nurses
In the Legislative Assembly on November 5th, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Question 156-13(6): Pay And Benefits For Nurses
Item 6: Oral Questions
November 4th, 1998
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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